A story with the spark of the unexpected

It is 1980 in Bella Pollen’s The Summer of the Bear, and the Outer Hebrides, a remote island chain off the northern coast of Scotland, has some unexpected visitors. Letty Fleming and her three children are there to mourn the death of their husband and father, Nick, and a domesticated bear has escaped from his owner and made the sea caves his temporary home. The ways in which these...